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Are physicists making up dark energy?

13 August 2010 Physics
This story was sent in by Gary Gilligan and is interesting as it represents the problem from an astro-physicist that believes dark energy is real
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Nefertiti in Colour

13 August 2010 Archaeology
Archaeologists are examining a cache of talatat blocks stored in Luxor, some 62,000 of them. They have been locked away for some years and only
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Back to Kola

7 August 2010 Climate change
Pierre Gosselin, on his blog http://pgosselin.wordpress.com August 7th ... discusses a series of tree ring proxies near the Arctic shores of Euroasia which includes the
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Marden Henge - what do we know?

6 August 2010 Archaeology
Actually, we still know very little. The latest bit of archaeological investigation has now come to an end (see BBC News August 6th) and we know
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Neanderthal Sleeping Quarters

6 August 2010 Anthropology
At http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-bedroom-house.html otherwise Discovery News, there is a description in juvenile terminology of the discovery of a separate space set aside in a cave in
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Almagest Ephemeris Calculator

6 August 2010 Dating
At www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/astro/almagestephemeris_main.htm is a web page with Java Script calendar and ephemeris modules for calculating geocentric luni-solar and planetary positions for an arbitrary calendar date
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Himalayan Odds

6 August 2010 Geology
At www.physorg.com/print200237328. html there is a report on a geological study into the formation of the Himalayas, the movement of the Indian plate into the
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Demise of rainforests

6 August 2010 Climate change
www.physorg.com/print200224571.html once again, and a paper in Conservation Letters says 45 per cent of plants and animals making up the rainforest habitat will remain intact
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Strings and Things

6 August 2010 Physics
At www.physorg.com/print200224981.html physicists use an offshoot of string theory to describe the puzzling behaviour of super conductors - material that conducts electricity without resistance. Published in
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Kangaroos

5 August 2010 Biology
At www.physorg.com/print200126874.html there is a claim that the evolution of kangaroos was intricately tied to Australian climate change - but suitably confined to millions of
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Painted Stones by Painted People

5 August 2010 Archaeology
The story is reported in The Scotsman (but see also http://news.scotsman.com/news/Neolithic-stone-network-found-on.6454132.jp ) stones painted with patterns such as zigzags and chevrons have been found in
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The auroral heartbeat of Saturn

5 August 2010 Electromagnetism
At www.physorg.com/print200123247.html ... a paper in Geophysical Research Letters (Aug 6th) claims that Saturn's aurora, a low ultraviolet glow which illuminates the upper atmosphere near
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Lightning and Hurricanes

5 August 2010 Electromagnetism
At www.physorg.com/print200126122.html (see also www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ ) is about a connection between lightning (electricity in the atmosphere) and hurricane intensification. NASA are now peering inside storms
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The Spacecraft Fly-by Mystery

4 August 2010 Astronomy
'The Spacecraft fly-by mystery - is dark matter the culprit or is there new physics waiting to be discovered?' is another headline grabber from Casey
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Cyrus and the Chinese

4 August 2010 Archaeology
www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Extracts-of-Cyrus-Cylinder-found-in-China/ (see News section if story unavailable) ... it seems a British Museum curator, Irving Finkel, has identified a cuneiform text inscribed on horse bones found
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The Out of Taiwan human migration

4 August 2010 Anthropology
An article in Current Anthropology (April 2010) (see www.physorg.com/print190043379.html ) disputes the consensus model of human colonisation of the Philippines, Malaysia and islands of Indonesia
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Ancient World Chronology and the Bible

4 August 2010 Dating
Ancient World Chronology and the Bible is an article you can find at www.reformed-theology.org/ice/newslet/bc/bc98.09.html and the author has clearly been reading Donovan Courville's book, The
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The Kings of the Ancient Britons

4 August 2010 Ancient history
The Kings of the Ancient Britons by Bill Cooper, can be found at www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation08.htm which is a rather peculiar document that shows a line of
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Anatolia and Historical Concepts (another paper on Mitanni, the Hittites, and the Hurrians)

4 August 2010 Ancient history
A document by Robert Hewson (which seems to have been written roughly 40 years ago but is still available online and quite close in nature
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EU Presentation.

4 August 2010 Electromagnetism
The Thunderbolts newsletter has announced (August 4th) that Dave Smith, editor of the 'Thunderblog' at www.thunderbolts.info will make a prresentation of the Electric Universe hypothesis
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